Five Things to Watch This Week

Five Things to Watch This Week - Week 12 (Game 11)

The Patriots play their eleventh regular season game at MetLife Stadium against the New York Jets on Thursday, November 22nd at 8:20 PM.

Is anything better than Thanksgiving? (Answer: no).

Excellent win last week. Fifty nine points on the board. Solid all around.

Good times, right? Unfortunately, the biggest story coming out of that game was Rob Gronkowski's injury. He'll be out 4 to 6 weeks after surgery to repair a broken arm (I wonder if he can appear to Goodell and get it reduced to 2?).

This also means it'll be a while longer until we finally see the Five Tight End Voltron Offense on the field. Boo.

It'll be a while before we see this again.

Ryan Power Rankings:

1) Nolan

2) Gosling

3) Jack

4) Private

5) Rob

6) Jeri

7) Bob

8) Matt

9) Fitzpatrick

10) Rex

Here's five things I'll be watching for this week:

1) Julian Edelman - Edelman gets a game ball for his performance last week. VERY GOOD, JULIAN. NICE JOB.

2) Visanthe Shiancoe - With Gronk out, maybe we can finally unleash the Shiancoe monster this week.

3) Aaron Hernandez - A Hernandez sighting this week would also be nice. Rumor has it he's going to play.

4) Stevan Ridley - Stevan had his worst game yet last week. Hopefully he gets it going again this week.

5) Alfonzo Dennard - This dude was a 7th round pick and he's probably our 2nd best corner at this point. Ooof.

Did Michael Hoomanawanui have a catch last week?

No.

/sad trombone

My prediction (Game 11): Pats 38, Jets 24

My prediction (Season): 11 - 5 (Steady from last week.)

Nut up or move on.

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This year, we're going to have regular contributions from Fake Bill Belichick for your reading pleasure. Here's this week's selection from Fake Bill Belichick's second book "My Patriot Years":

Is it Thanksgiving again already? Wow... The time just flies.

A lot of people ask... What am I thankful for?

Friends? Family? A good team owner? A hall of fame quartback? Being in first place? Playing the Bills twice a year? Facing Mark Sanchez this week?

Well, sure. All those things. But right now, I'm mostly thankful for Rush's "Chronicles".

"Really, Bill? A greatest hits album?" Yup. Even though I've got all their early Rush albums (my 8-track player still works...), it's just great to have all those songs right in one spot.

"But they're not even from Jersey. They're from Canada!" Don't hold that against them. They do some excellent work.

I'll be listening to "Chronicles" the whole way down to the Jets game on Thursday. And the whole way back.

I got no time for livin'. Yes, I'm workin' all the time.

They call me the working man. I guess that's what I am.

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